Senior Compensation Analyst

Acosta

$80K — $100K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree (related work experience can substitute education)
  • 4+ years of experience in compensation, including incentive analysis and administration
  • Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, graphs, vlookups)
  • Proficiency in PowerPoint and Word
  • Experience with HRIS for merit and bonus processing preferred
  • Strong interpersonal, organizational, oral, and written communication skills
  • Ability to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines

Responsibilities

  • Provide guidance to HR Business Partners and Leaders on compensation matters
  • Conduct job evaluations for talent acquisition and retention
  • Recommend and assist in job description creation for roles across the company
  • Maintain the salary structure and manage geographical differentials
  • Lead merit, wage, incentive, and bonus compensation processes
  • Audit salary issues for market alignment and internal equity
  • Review and approve exceptions to compensation guidelines
  • Conduct advanced compensation analysis to identify trends
  • Design and implement incentive and commission plans
  • Develop training materials and communication for compensation programs
  • Collaborate with analysts to enhance processes and systems for compensation tools
  • Assess the impact of compensation changes on budgets and revenue

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits package
  • Retirement plans with company match
  • Flexible work schedules or remote work options
  • Opportunities for professional development and training
  • Supportive corporate culture emphasizing work-life balance
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Senior Compensation Analyst provides guidance and support to the Leaders and HR Business Partners for all compensation related activities. The Senior Compensation Analyst works with a variety of stakeholders across the Company to develop and present compensation alternatives or recommendations while maintaining consistency with the compensation philosophy and guidelines. Recommendations and guidance is often complex and spans multiple business units, sub-companies or as a result of acquisitions. The position requires a high sense of urgency, strong project management skills, strong database management skills, and the ability to deliver accurate work in a highly complex environment. The position requires annual market analysis with associated recommendations and includes geographical differentials, variable pay, sales and incentive plans and other compensation programs.

Responsibilities

  • Provides guidance and consultation to HR Business Partners and Leaders regarding compensation, incentive design, regulatory and other compensation related programs
  • Complete job evaluations for leaders, Human Resources and/or Talent Acquisition to retain, reward and recruit key talent.
  • Assists and recommends job descriptions for new, modified, and consolidated jobs across the Company.
  • Create and maintain current salary structure for entire company to include geographical differentials.
  • Leads various compensation processes such as merit, minimum wage, sales incentives, annual bonus, and other compensation related programs.
  • Ongoing auditing of base salary issues as it applies to external market, internal equity, and salary guideline compliance.
  • Reviews and approves compensation exceptions per the Compensation guidelines.
  • Conduct reviews and recommends actions based on the Fair Labor Standards Act and state required compensation regulations
  • Performs advanced compensation analysis with recommendations to identify trends, creates dashboards and other requests
  • Leads incentive and commission plan design and implementation as required.
  • Develops compensation communications and training materials to support various programs and changes
  • Partners with other analysts in the identification and implementation of process enhancements and developing new applications or upgrades for compensation systems and tools. This requires documenting business requirements, advising on process, testing systems, and updating data structures
  • Assesses the impact of compensation changes as they affect budgets and revenue. Recommends options regarding program design, costs and including alternative approaches.
  • Meeting the physical requirements - listed below
  • Other duties as assigned


Qualifications

Education:
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • Related work experience can be substituted for some educational requirements.

Work Experience:
  • 4+ years of compensation experience including compensation incentive analysis experience, administration, and design experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
  • Advanced Excel expertise required. (Includes pivot tables, graphs, Indexing, vlookups and other advanced functionality)
  • Excellent experience in PowerPoint and Word
  • Prefer HRIS merit and bonus processing experience
  • Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills a must.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills are required.
  • Must be able to create graphic presentations of data
  • Must be able to handle multiple projects simultaneously and meet tight timelines.


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